Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday she fears President Trump may use the war in Iran to try to cancel the 2028 presidential election.
Greene, who resigned from Congress in January after a public falling-out with the president, was once a loyal MAGA ally and one of Trump’s fiercest defenders. Her frustrations over the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine as well as the administration’s handling of files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein caused a rift in their once-strong relationship.
In an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, another former MAGA loyalist, Greene pointed to comments Trump made during a 2025 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Elections in Ukraine were postponed because of the ongoing war with Russia.
“So, you say, during the war, you can’t have elections?” Trump said to Zelensky at the meeting. “Three and a half years from now, so you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.”
Greene, speaking to Jones, first noted that “he said it jokingly.”
“But at the same time, knowing President Trump, I looked at that and I thought … I don’t know if he’s joking,” she continued.
The former lawmaker added that the president’s comments about extending power during wartime could risk normalizing the idea while he tests support for a third term.
“I think it’s incredibly dangerous and no one should ever accept it,” the Georgia Republican said. “There cannot be a third term, no. That’s against our laws, that’s against the Constitution, there is no third term.”
She continued, “And if this country is at war, no, our elections should not be canceled.”
There has been a growing fracture among Trump’s MAGA coalition over the war in Iran. Several prominent conservative pundits, including Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, longtime Trump allies who helped boost the president in his 2024 bid to return to the White House, have criticized the U.S. operation in Iran as a reversal of Trump’s “America First” campaign pledge to keep the country out of foreign wars.
The 22nd Amendment bars an individual from being elected as president for more than two terms. Trump has openly quipped about the prospect of a third term but conceded that he knows he cannot run again.
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